Chapter 179 Yuezhou Blood

The scratching of the horses' hoofs raised a cloud-like dust, which was permeated in the morning sun. The air was so suppressed that it came to Yuezhou, which was located at the intersection of the rivers and lakes. As soon as the sky was bright, it was shrouded in a black cloud of smoke. The sound of gunfire and gunfire seemed to be the only sound in the air.

As soon as the sky was bright, the battle outside Yuezhou was resurrected. Under the cover of a warship's naval gun, the Hubei standing army soldiers in navy blue uniforms once again stood up to the light recovery army trenches outside Yuezhou City through several barbed wire nets under the command of the soldiers.

The trench behind the barbed wire is full of wounded soldiers, as well as those killed in the battle. In the trench, the civilian men constantly move the corpses in the trench to the open space behind the trench. The clothes of these people crowded in the trench are different, and even the weapons in their hands are different. There are the latest Mauser quick guns, as well as Chinese or 88. In addition to rifles, there are also singles such as Old Mauser and Remington.

In the middle river of the Yangtze River, a gunboat is constantly shelling the infantry trenches. The heavy shells of the Yangtze River Division exploded violently when they landed, and easily broke the limbs of the barbed wire. Compared with the past three days, the gunboats in the river are mainly shelling those barbed wire.

Occasionally, a shell falls into the trench, which will blow up some unlucky soldiers and civilians. The soldiers in the trench will hide in the cannon hole with fear, waiting for further orders from the soldiers.

At this time, although the gunfire was fierce, no one dared to escape! In the past three days, the law enforcement team has repeatedly expressed the harshness of military law to them with machine guns. In addition to the law enforcement of hand-held submachine guns, the second line of defense is responsible for driving back the deserters of the first line of defense with bullets.

"If someone escapes, drive them back, or you will have to go up!"

The power of the officers made the soldiers of the Restoration Army understand that if they want to live, they have to stare there on the front line. In order to survive, they will never spare their bullets.

"They have cut off their braids to rebel, and Heng Jian is dead!"

Perhaps the military law is like a mountain, or helpless. In short, in the past three days, the first line of defense has been staring there under the obstruction of barbed wire and the threat of bullets. In the war, the surviving people have learned how to fight.

A line of navy blue appeared on the horizon. Their pace was not fast. They lined up, holding rifles, and the bright bayonets on the head of the gun became a forest of bayonets outside Yuezhou City in the early morning.

As soon as the blue strip appeared, in the civil machine gun base hundreds of meters apart from the trenches, the machine gun shooter pulled the bolt and showed bloodthirsty eyes. Their eyes stared at a white stone 300 meters away. With the white stone as the boundary, hundreds of corpses were scattered, which were scattered in the sneak attack last night. The bodies of Hubei standing army and defense soldiers were carried away.

"Amunition hands are ready!"

The captain of the machine gun ordered that the ammunition hand standing next to the machine gun firing position had picked up the long magazine of 56 rounds to prepare for the supply of ammunition.

The MJ03 machine gun is the only machine gun they have. In order to make up for the lack of heavy machine guns, these machine guns use heavy barrels, tripods, and these 56 rounds of magazines. Although the firepower lasts of this machine gun is inferior to that of Maxim during the test firing, it is compared with the Haqikais machine gun with 30 rounds of ammunition plate feeding. It's half a catty to eight taels.

"Damn it, these slaves are going to die today!"

From the telescope, I saw that there were about a thousand people. A row of Hubei standing army and two platoons of defense soldiers lined up in ten columns to parade the Qing army. The captain of the machine gun muttered, and the bloodthirsty machine gunner was also shocked by the formation of the Qing army today. This was the best shooting target.

"Stand steady!"

"Stability..."

The sentries with knives in their left and guns in their right followed the column forward and shouted at the fearful soldiers to stabilize the formation. Although the column seemed to be in good order, the trembling rifles and white faces in their hands showed their inner fear.

When the column advanced towards the front of the trench, the soldiers, who were originally leaning in the cannon hole in the trench, with the sound of the whistle, aimed at the front chest wall of the trench with the gun and was ready to shoot. The soldiers with the old-fashioned gun singles took out more than a dozen bullets from their pockets and put them on the chest wall, and the officers in black student uniforms also took them. A rifle was set up to aim at the soldiers.

"This is to let people die!"

Putting down the binoculars, Zhang Zhibo's first feeling was anger. At this time, when he looked at the troops advancing with guns and columns less than half a kilometer away through the faint morning light, his anger turned more violently and his breathing became rapid.

He felt the muscles of the fierce horse trembling, and the thick air from his mouth stirred up the slightly cold air by the riverside. The sun slowly rose, a ray of sunlight fell on his thick body, and his right cheek felt itchy and warm under the sun.

He looked at Chris, who was not far away from a group of officers in a straight German tweed military uniform, with a field telescope hanging on his chest and a white gloved left hand on the handle of the saber. This is the suggestion of "Colocampus Shock" put forward by Major Chris.

"There is enough manpower to tear open any line of defense!"

This is Major Chris's words last night. It was at his suggestion that 2,500 soldiers lined up the dead column towards the light recovery line using a large number of electric guns.

However, Chris did not feel the indignation in other people's eyes. He just carefully observed the defense line of the Guangfu Army with a telescope. This defense line gave him too much surprise. There were many barbed wires in front, and the infantry trenches were behind. There were many barbed wires between one defense line and two defense lines.

This is not very new. As early as the Civil War in the United States, this kind of trench defense operation had appeared. The most surprising thing was the machine gun inside the trench, which stopped the attack of the Qing army.

"I hope it can be completed..."

He transferred the telescope to those white stones and looked at the scattered but regular corpses. Chris muttered in his heart that for him, this Qing army battle was just a test to test the defense ability of the light recovery army's position and charge against large-scale columns.

"Governor Li, if you conquer the defense line, please be sure to capture the anti-bandit machine gunners!"

Put down the telescope and Chris said to Li Yuanhong beside him in a stiff Chinese.

"That's natural. I still need those machine gunners to make racing guns!"

Li Yuanhong swept the two racing electric guns in front of him, which were used to urge the war. He used the electric gun to supervise the battle. He and the Guangfu Army learned in the past two days. In the past two days, when a few soldiers narrowly rushed through the barbed wire, the mixed rebel party almost collapsed. Many people left their guns and fled backwards, but they were killed by the rear. The stoon forced back to the line of defense.

"The heart is not in charge of the army!"

There are also a lot of talents among the usurers! It's better to capture even the trainees together. Li Yuanhong even thought that if he captured Yu Shaopeng, he would take out his ability to train in any case. It was indeed a little capable of turning these fish and dragons into a "strong army" in a few days.

"It's a pity..."

It's a pity for Yu Shaopeng. Li Yuanhong, like everyone else, threw the telescope at the column that was advancing on the battlefield.

Close, close... The soldiers who looked at the white stone and the corpse and shouted "stable" with guns all sweated on their nervous foreheads. The line was dead, their dead.

"Don't retreat, go forward bravely... Those who retreat will be killed!"

When it was getting closer and closer, the soldiers roared with knives. Everyone's hearts trembled when they heard this. This was by no means threatening. The adults had already spoken before departure.

"If you conquer the defense line, each person will be rewarded with ten taels of silver. If you don't get a retreat order, you can kill those who escape!"

Before they left, the two electric guns had even been pushed behind them. There was no way to the sky and no way to the ground, and they had to rush forward.

"Prepare...prepare..."

As the enemy got closer and closer, the machine gun captains held the binoculars in one hand and waved them in the other. The machine gunners listened to the command and held their breath, waiting for the last moment.

Finally, in the sight of the telescope, a column crossed the white line of corpse, and the machine gun captain waved his hand.

"Fire!"

The machine gunner pulled the trigger, and the 35-degree machine gun spit out the fire tongue. In an instant, only the dense sound of machine guns could be heard on the battlefield, during which there were screams made by people when they were dying... Every brick and stone on the Yuezhou city wall was clearly visible. Most of them were already mottled and scarred by cannonballs and bullets, but the city wall Still standing there.

Suddenly, there were bursts of explosions and the sound of machine guns in the air... Ning Xin stood up, rushed to the window, and opened the window.

The explosion and machine gun sound appeared louder, clearer and closer. The floor under his feet trembled, and the bowls and cups on the table also crackled.

"It's on the north side of the city!"

Ning Xin said excitedly, "There is also the south of the city."

After she closed the window, the glass and the rice paper pasted on the glass made a trembling sound.

"It seems that the officers and soldiers will not take the troops if they don't break through the gate today!"

Ning Ze, who was sitting in the chair, said softly, but his expression seemed a little complicated.

He is an imperial official who retired and returned to his hometown, hoping that the imperial army would recover Yuezhou. But when he thought of the military disaster that Yuezhou City would suffer, his mood was naturally much more complicated. He naturally knew how many disasters there would be in Yuezhou City!

Ning Xin sat down beside her grandfather and put her hand in the palm of his hand. Grandpa also seems to be trembling now.

If only my parents were at home! They will know what to do.

My father went to Guangdong. When my mother went to Guangdong for the first month, I wanted to take Ning Xin with me, but my grandfather didn't serve me. My mother changed her mind before she left, but she didn't think of this change.

"Xin'er, are you afraid?"

Ning Ze asked his granddaughter. His grandson stayed in the East Ocean, and there was such a sweet granddaughter around him.

"Don't be afraid."

Ning Xin replied, but she knew that she was afraid, at least she was very worried. She was not worried about the officers and soldiers outside the city. When the officers and soldiers came, they saw the sign hanging at the door of the house, and naturally dared not disturb them. After all, Grandpa came back as a second-grade member of the court. She was worried about the Guangfu army.

After the restoration of Yuezhou, all these men have to cut their braids. Today is the last day of the three-day braids. If they come to see Grandpa.

Thinking of this, Ning Xin looked at his grandfather's white braids. Grandpa didn't want to cut it. He said that the five generations of the Ning family were officials and wanted to be the loyal ministers and righteous sons of the Qing Dynasty.

But...but we are Han people! Ning Xin frowned, thinking about the drama "The Land of Jiangyin" on the Drum Tower when the day before yesterday, the loyalty of Jiangyin's righteous men in the play, the villagers were absolutely clear when they entered the camp with explosives, Meng Tong's suicide, the loyalty of the woman jumping into the well, and the brutality of the Qing Dynasty.

"My dignified noble, why do you kneel down on that captive slave!"

Ning Xin wanted to say it, but she didn't dare to say it in front of Grandpa. In the play, people like Grandpa are... Those two words are really harsh, if Grandpa hears them.

Seeing the strange color of his granddaughter after seeing her braids, Ning Ze sighed in his heart.

"Xin'er, are you worried that grandpa won't cut his braids?"

Ning Xin nodded and didn't worry. On the day of Yuezhou, the Guangfu Army cut off the heads of hundreds of people, and even the Hu Zhifu only said one sentence.

"I am favored by the court, how can I succumb to the turbulent people!"

was regarded as Han annihism by the Guangfu Army. After the performance of "The Land of Jiangyin" in the Drum Tower, his head was cut off to sacrifice the heroic spirits.

"Master..."

At this time, a servant rushed in with a panic on his face. His hair was scattered behind his bag. This was Grandpa Yun's Ning's servant who chose whether to wear braids or keep braids. The servants cut all the braids on the same day.

"Sir, Governor... The governor's axe has sent someone..."

The servant said that the five soldiers with guns walked into the hall of the Ning family's mansion. Ning Xin looked at the young man and suddenly opened their eyes wide, all with an incredible look. It was him! He... Why is he him?

Entering the hall, he saw Ning Xin standing behind Ning Ze. Li Zhuoyi did not show much emotion, but just made a military salute.

"Mr. Ning!"

"Who am I? It turned out to be the third young master of the Li family!"

Ning Ze raised his eyes slightly.

"This Li family has been loyal and martyrs for generations. In those years, Brother Li Nanyun was a good friend of Ning. He fought in Shaanxi with Zuo Shuai's rebellion in the northwest. Brother Li's sons Li Zuoqin and Li Zuoren died in more than a dozen elastic battles in Taiwan and the capital. The Li family has been loyal to the court for generations and never thought of the Li family, but now there is a thief. "!"

He stared at Ning Ze and showed some official prestige. Ning Ze said harshly to the young man standing in front of him, but his heart was painful. This... This Li Zhuoyi is... Yu Guang turned his granddaughter's pale face. He was the uncle of the Ning family.

The harsh words did not make Li Zhuoyi show any emotion, but the soldiers behind him quit.

"Sir, what are you talking about with him... It's convenient to cut it directly!"

As he spoke, the soldier pulled out his bayonet.

" Stop!"

After stopping the soldiers' actions, seeing the annoyance on Xin'er's face, Li Zhuoyi sighed bitterly.

"Mr. Ning! You need to know that the military order can't be violated!"

Ning Ze stood up and straightened his chest to look directly at the uncle who had not entered in front of him.

"The head can be broken, and the braid can't be broken!"

"Grandpa!"

Grandpa's behavior only shocked Ning Xin. She quickly protected her in front of him and looked at her future husband.

"Ayi...he...he is my grandfather, and also your grandfather..."

" Keep your head without hair, keep your hair without your head! That's what the barbarians were do, not what we were the nobles of Yanhuang!"

The wife who didn't pass the door stood there, only letting Li Zhuoyi smile bitterly and shake his head, and then looked up at Mr. Ning.

"Those who do not cut their braids will be regarded as Han annihjong. If Mr. Ning insists on going his own way, he is afraid that after the restoration in the future, he will leave his name on the monument in front of Yueyang City Gate. At that time, the Ning family will be ashamed for generations! Please ask Mr. Ning to reflect on yourself!"

"At that time, the Ning family will be ashamed for generations! Please ask Mr. Ning to reflect on himself..."

Sitting in the chair, Ning Ze's mind was full of his son-in-law's words, and his expression became more and more complicated. He looked at the leaflet on the table that he left when he left.

"... The Han anniper monument was erected in front of the city, the township and the village, engraved in the name of 260 years of Han anniaming, in order to shame the descendants of the police!"

"...Those who refuse to cut their braids, engrave their names. Those who leave braids to death, engrave their name..."

This word and sentence only made Ning Ze's face full of sadness. He wanted to be his loyalty, but he was afraid of tarnishing the reputation of the Ning family for thousands of years. The dilemma that he could not die and could not be left only made him squeeze out some old tears. He suddenly stood up and walked to the courtyard and kneel down to the capital.

"The emperor, the empress dowager, non-Ningze disloyalty, just..."

Crying silently, Ning Ze kowtowed a few times, and his hands trembled again when he grabbed the braids. He just waved his hand and cut off the braids behind his head. When the white braids were cut off, he only felt that the thoughts in his heart seemed to collapse in the moment when the braids dispersed.

Looking at her grandfather kneeling in the yard, Ning Xin's throat choked, but there was another stone in her heart. Now, it's all right.

When a man approached the barbed wire, he fell to the ground, and his face was bloody. An official looked at all this in horror. His sentry was destroyed, and all his subordinates were killed by electric guns. They held on to the last minute against the bullets.

The machine guns in the fortifications were still roaring, but the Qing army was still moving forward. The machine gunners kept pulling the trigger and firing continuously. The shooting of the machine gun did not stop until the barrel was red and the magazine was empty. But they couldn't stop those people from continuing to rush forward. When the lucky ones crossed the crossed death zone and walked out of the gap of the blown barbed wire, they saw the heads emerging from behind the trench chest wall, close, close, fifty feet, thirty feet... "Release..."

When both sides could see each other's appearance clearly, there was a series of machine gun platoons in the roaring trenches. The lucky ones who luckily crossed the barbed wire fell on the ground one after another. After several rounds and close-range platoons, there were no living people standing in front of the trenches and between the barbed wire.

The sound of gunfire and gunfire finally calmed down at this time. In this strange silence, an officer with a bloody saber in the corpse pile struggled to kneel between the corpses with a knife. He looked at the trenches close at hand and forced his body to stand up, but in the end he still failed. Stand up. .

In the thick black smoke, he knelt between the corpses, with a foreign-style saber in his right hand, looking at the trenches a few feet away, scattering God's eyes, with only a little hatred, only one step away... (Loyal minister and righteous son, to be honest, used in the Qing Dynasty, this word always makes life feel strange, emotionally, speechless to respect those of me. Loyalty, but in terms of position... Hey! Cherish his talent and pity his encounter! Ask for a monthly ticket! Please read it!)

(to be continued)